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A marine conservation photojournalist's "magical" picture shining a light on the underwater world of a tadpole species has earned him the title of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year.Shane Gross, from Canada, captured the western toad tadpoles while snorkelling through lily pads in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island, British Colombia. He managed to snap a cloud of the amphibians, which are a near-threatened species due to habitat destruction and predators, while […]

A staff member at a Dutch museum accidentally threw a piece of art in the bin, thinking it was rubbish. The work, titled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was created by French artist Alexandre Lavet in 1988 and shows two dented beer cans on the floor. It was on display inside the lift at the LAM museum in the town of Lisse, around 25km (15 miles) outside of Amsterdam. […]

The suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has been cleared of a string of sex attacks in Portugal, unrelated to the missing British toddler.Christian B, as he is known under privacy laws, had denied three rapes and the sex abuse of two young girls while he was living on the Algarve coast.During a trial that began in February, chief prosecutor Ute Lindemann branded the German drifter a "sadistic psychopath" and […]

Donald Trump has suggested migrants in the US who have committed murder have done so because "it's in their genes".While seeking to criticise his Democratic opponent, vice president Kamala Harris, over her record on immigration, Mr Trump cited statistics from the Department of Homeland Security. In a radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt, Mr Trump said: "How about allowing people to come through an open border, 13,000 of which […]

It's one year since Hamas' 7 October attack on Israel, which was followed by Israel's mission to eradicate the group in Gaza.In short, what followed was a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Iranian attacks on Israel, and Israel fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon. With the region yet to find a sustainable path away from conflict, on the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson takes a step back and asks if a peaceful solution […]

British sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands is not up for negotiation, the prime minister's spokesman has said.Questions over the government's commitment to maintaining the British overseas territories as part of the UK have been raised after the government announced on Thursday it was handing the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius. Sir Keir Starmer's official spokesman said the government was ruling out negotiations over Gibraltar, claimed by Spain, and […]

Florida is preparing for its largest evacuation in seven years as the US state braces for the arrival of Hurricane Milton.The weather system, which strengthened from a tropical storm to a hurricane on Sunday, is forecast to make landfall in the US on Wednesday. The hurricane, which is currently sweeping east across the Gulf of Mexico, is predicted to hit the Tampa Bay area before travelling over Orlando.It comes after […]

What the children of Lebanon have seen and what they have heard as the conflict rages between Hezbollah and Israel will not be easily forgotten. It will be generational.More than 400,000 children have been displaced from their homes amid the latest fighting, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).Many have had to flee not just once, but sometimes two, three, even four times.Latest updates from Middle East as fighting […]

Dunya is holding a photo. Seven smiling faces look back at her, a snapshot of the lives of friends who worked and socialised with each other.She is in the middle of the picture, beaming. Now, her smile has gone. This photo was taken just over a year ago, at a birthday party towards the end of September 2023. Just days before the world changed. The seven women all worked on […]